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that is the term that hits us. as high as 1.7i think for white americans and 3.9 not only did it not jump up and say that an entire generation it was a long-lasting effect and then by 1970 that momentum ended and we saw not only a gradual slowdown but dropping off the cliff and when it happened it happened everywhere in the west and in germany and france and america and its continued to slide and what is interesting is since then, the west has led the global fertility decline and since then you've seen all the other countries right now 97% of the world's population is in a country where the fertility rate is declining. in africa and europe and asia and what is really striking and what people don't typically pay attention to the actual fertility rate is high year than it is here in america. the rate of decline is generally steeper and if you look down in mexico and central america and south america while many of them solve a fertility rate above where we have the rate of decline so when you look at these numbers you
that is the term that hits us. as high as 1.7i think for white americans and 3.9 not only did it not jump up and say that an entire generation it was a long-lasting effect and then by 1970 that momentum ended and we saw not only a gradual slowdown but dropping off the cliff and when it happened it happened everywhere in the west and in germany and france and america and its continued to slide and what is interesting is since then, the west has led the global fertility decline and since then...
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this is one of those factors pushing us in that direction. now another big change is the nature of the welfare state. this is something which didn't exist in ninteenth-century 19thy ninteenth-century america. we were basically on our own. as we got older children to care of us in one of the basic reasons to have children. you have a gaggle of kids and you hope that one of them at least it's a good one and will look after you. and now we don't need to have that anymore. we have social security and medicare. it's still nice to have a child ... and to look at you as you begin to drool and watch more jeopardy but it's no longer necessary. all these little things and these tiny changes, some bigger and some smaller have pushed us in the direction of having fewer and fewer children. >> host: back to the issue you raised about the cost of children. you. you in fact mention this throughout the book. you talked about the increasing price of a child such as $1000 drillers for parents who want to get into that as well as some of the figures on the cost
this is one of those factors pushing us in that direction. now another big change is the nature of the welfare state. this is something which didn't exist in ninteenth-century 19thy ninteenth-century america. we were basically on our own. as we got older children to care of us in one of the basic reasons to have children. you have a gaggle of kids and you hope that one of them at least it's a good one and will look after you. and now we don't need to have that anymore. we have social security...
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they are well below us. in france it's higher. but all of the evidence suggests that's really because immigration. they had a great deal of immigration from north africa and the difference of fertility rates between native frenchmen and immigrant is enormous. at the least, at the least half a kid and possibly more statistics coming from france are dodgy. they don't let you take the numbers in explicitly by race and country origin and all of that. you look at the thing and i want to tell you what works and doesn't work. social conservative we like to think that everything is fine if we can get back to traditional values. there's evidence that suggests it may be not true either. singapore looks like what would happen if santorum went on steroids and able to do. you had the prime minister giving speeches about ten years ago about how, you know, sickle mother hood was terrible. you needed traditional family and we needed to have more women having family. the stuff of social conservative dreams. it was coupled with generous, generous g
they are well below us. in france it's higher. but all of the evidence suggests that's really because immigration. they had a great deal of immigration from north africa and the difference of fertility rates between native frenchmen and immigrant is enormous. at the least, at the least half a kid and possibly more statistics coming from france are dodgy. they don't let you take the numbers in explicitly by race and country origin and all of that. you look at the thing and i want to tell you...
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our parents put us on commercial flights and sent us here because they were desperate. they were desperate because their children were already being taken away from them. in many different ways. the so-called preeducation in cuba is not really free. all children have to perform agricultural labor in the summer to pay their debt to the revolution, basically pay for their education, and there's no pay involved in this labor. it's slave labor. the kids were being sent to camps in the countryside. the parents had no say in where the kids went or what happened at these camps. so, parents panicked. and there was just -- it's a long and complicated story, but a school headmaster in havana, james baker, who had connections with the u.s. state department, and he managed to get the state department to give him and a group of people in havana cart blanc to draw up visa waivers that would allow kids to leave two or the or four months after they i played. parents required a much longer time. so parents just wanted to get the the kids out first, and the plan was to reunite with them.
our parents put us on commercial flights and sent us here because they were desperate. they were desperate because their children were already being taken away from them. in many different ways. the so-called preeducation in cuba is not really free. all children have to perform agricultural labor in the summer to pay their debt to the revolution, basically pay for their education, and there's no pay involved in this labor. it's slave labor. the kids were being sent to camps in the countryside....
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send us an e-mail at the tv at c-span.org or tweak us at twitter.com/booktv. now on booktv, john allison argues that government incentives and regulation caused the 2008 claps and says that to improve the economy, we need to opt pure free-market policies. it is about 50 minutes. [applause] >> thank you. it is a pleasure to be here. i would like to congratulate heritage on the success that they have had. we did it. this is a pattern we have going forward and the purpose is to talk about my book, which is "the financial crisis and the free market cure." people ask me my i wrote the book. the basic answer is i thought it would be interesting to have somebody who knew what he was talking about write about thinking. because if you look to the academics to some degree, they don't know what they are talking about. [laughter] i think it's very important to undo a myth. these myths become destructive. the method they created is that it was caused by the deregulation on wall street. welcome to the simple fact is that this was not deregulated. we have the privacy act and
send us an e-mail at the tv at c-span.org or tweak us at twitter.com/booktv. now on booktv, john allison argues that government incentives and regulation caused the 2008 claps and says that to improve the economy, we need to opt pure free-market policies. it is about 50 minutes. [applause] >> thank you. it is a pleasure to be here. i would like to congratulate heritage on the success that they have had. we did it. this is a pattern we have going forward and the purpose is to talk about my...
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/booktv or follow us on twitter @booktv. you can also visit our website, booktv.org, and click on news about books. you're watching c-span2, politics and public affairs weekdays featuring live coverage of the u.s. senate. weeknights what's key public policy events in every weekend the lettuce nonfiction authors and books on book tv. you can see past programs and their schedules that our website at, and you could join in the conversation on social media sites. and now, taylor branch, author of the multi it volume of america in the king year's presents his thoughts on key moments in the civil rights movement. this is about an hour 15 spirited. >> thank you, mr. hale. thank you, atlanta. atlanta history center. i have been heretofore. and glad to be back. i am glad to be back talking about something that has been a subject that has been due to me my whole life and is inescapable now . i'm getting older, is my life's work a lamb glad for it. this is another round. i beg to take more questions tonight than i normally do. i am goi
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it's used by all of us because nobody said it is too complicated for consumers. somebody said i don't know how to make a living. i'm going to figure out how to make it smaller and smaller more than the other stops. we released a study this month that said the $81 billion in savings we were going to make by having an investment produced no savings. it's too bad because the government put $25,000,000.40 billion investment why would they not produce any savings? if you've been to the hospital or doctor that you can see in front of you i filled out the form for him, nobody would have done if he wasn't an adult, the surgeon matej said almost certainly iraq to the pimex let's get a scam on him to confirm that. we felt the same seven page form we felt the same 15 minutes before but i know you've all been through it. we went to the emergency room where just for fun while they were waiting for a room i said if i were to pay for this with cash what would happen? it was the equivalent of saying i have a bomb strapped to my chest and i am going to blow up the hospital unless
it's used by all of us because nobody said it is too complicated for consumers. somebody said i don't know how to make a living. i'm going to figure out how to make it smaller and smaller more than the other stops. we released a study this month that said the $81 billion in savings we were going to make by having an investment produced no savings. it's too bad because the government put $25,000,000.40 billion investment why would they not produce any savings? if you've been to the hospital or...
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churchill did consume more alcohol than we're used today. not a great deal by the standards of the contemporary and drink didn't effect him or his work. churchill drank a small amount of whiskey with soda, no ice, in a glass about this big. they called it mouthwash. at lunch and dinner he drank a half bottle of champagne. they sent him a case of the 1928 until the sum mys ran out in 1953. when churchill died in 1965 he had only gone through the 1934 vintage. after his death, they ordered that all bottles imported to britain would have a black mourning ban stripped across the bottle. every dinner and important occasion throughout his life, was marked with champagne. after dinner, churchill drank brandy. neat. and, by the way, he drank brandy not port. early had his life a doctor recommended brandy instead of port. this is one of the few times he followed a doctor's orders. perhaps knowing that port would be bad for what he called his indy, always patting his stomach when he said this. his indy jex something he suffered from given the meals he
churchill did consume more alcohol than we're used today. not a great deal by the standards of the contemporary and drink didn't effect him or his work. churchill drank a small amount of whiskey with soda, no ice, in a glass about this big. they called it mouthwash. at lunch and dinner he drank a half bottle of champagne. they sent him a case of the 1928 until the sum mys ran out in 1953. when churchill died in 1965 he had only gone through the 1934 vintage. after his death, they ordered that...
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strength across lines that divide us. it's not new that we remember our history that race relations are involved. i think that we should be ashamed of doing it both on the left and the right that we don't do it, and if you're interested in why, i've mentioned george wallace, i can also, people in the civil rights movement turned against a lot of their own examples. number one, nine violence. nonviolence became in popular among people in the civil rights movement. the most powerful idea was the first one that was abandoned and there are a lot of other pashtun religious. the left turned against religious. when it was half of the movement inspiration and half of dr. king's magnificent formula of equal souls and equal votes, one foot in the scriptures, one foot in the constitution. than the next thing you know people are turning against the spiritual base of democracy. we must remember the civil war for centuries, when our growing up in atlantic of my textbooks in the civil war had nothing to do with slavery and we got a lot
strength across lines that divide us. it's not new that we remember our history that race relations are involved. i think that we should be ashamed of doing it both on the left and the right that we don't do it, and if you're interested in why, i've mentioned george wallace, i can also, people in the civil rights movement turned against a lot of their own examples. number one, nine violence. nonviolence became in popular among people in the civil rights movement. the most powerful idea was the...
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then they have to use units. they are constantly deploying troops to prevent slaves from running away to the enemy and joined the union army. they also have to divert troops to contain the deserters. they don't have any extra troops. so the pressure on the of numbers, by the end, by late 1864, i think the 1863 the secretary of war says there are no more white men to be had. and at that point the conversation starts years about whether they have to use black soldiers. bizarre, but i think the perfect arc of justice from slavery as an element of strength to we have to consider in anticipating slaves to force them to enlist in the confederacy. so that's another story i tell in the book is they don't contemplate emancipation out of the goodness of their heart. a lot of people think that the confederacy chose independence over slavery because by the end, some people were willing to enlist black many army. but the confederate congress was used to write and emancipation clause. so you can imagine how much of a nonstarte
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we used cars that use oil, that is a rockefeller gift. and we are consuming news that were developed by people like joseph pulitzer. he came to the united states as a mercenary soldier in the civil war. he didn't really see any action. like many veterans after the war, he was unemployed. it is hard to reinvigorate people into the economy. he ended up in st. louis where he becomes confronted by a major german american who becomes a senator from new york. joseph pulitzer enters the world of press at that point. interesting in regards to modern-day immigrants. it is that kind of speed of immigration that we had in the 19th century when people were coming. he becomes fabulously successful . and he invented a very new form of journalism. it is much like a modern-day surfer. what i mean is that if you go to a beach and look out the water beyond where the waves are breaking, men and women paddle out in the middle of the ocean. some perceive that that will be the best wave of the day, whereas others don't see it. well, in regards to joseph pulitz
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thank you for joining us. [applause] [applause] i am excited that two other guests are with us tonight, katharine hubbard and her husband. [applause] is one of my favorite people. please stand, the mayor and the first lady. [applause] [cheers] you can visit our website and have access to other great authors and notable people. just go to our website at aggressive form.org. we are pleased to give a look copy to everyone tonight. just together the distribution table in the grand foyer. additional books are also for sale at the bookshop. after justice sotomayor's presentation, she will join me for a q&a session. i should say that supreme court rules do not allow us to discuss court cases of the past or present or future, but we could build deeply into the fascinating story of her life. just as sotomayor lived. i cried when i read the book, "my beloved world." i also laughed. it is a wonderful book. i believe it will be more and been a bestseller. it will become a classic american success story and required readin
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that's the word i'd use very carefully. it is not a culture of of of stereotypical rambo-kind of things because that's not the way special operations succeed. that's how you lose. and so you have to build a culture that a is evolved of problem solving, and problem solving in which building teams does that. so what happened is we went up through the first -- i was in the rangers and then joint special operations command through the first gulf war where we did scud hunting, hunting for iraqi missiles out in western iraq. and we were getting better and better at what we did. we all paid huge attention to what mark wrote so brilliantly about in black hawk down. that was the operation mogadishu. we went to school on that experience aided by the document that he had written on an operation that had gone very badly but then had been, essentially, dealt with by the force on the ground with extraordinary courage. but a lot of holes in what we could do came out. we came out as a fairly brittle force, ie, if everything went perfectly
that's the word i'd use very carefully. it is not a culture of of of stereotypical rambo-kind of things because that's not the way special operations succeed. that's how you lose. and so you have to build a culture that a is evolved of problem solving, and problem solving in which building teams does that. so what happened is we went up through the first -- i was in the rangers and then joint special operations command through the first gulf war where we did scud hunting, hunting for iraqi...
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of us. but, of course, that's not true. when you that health care is impossibly complex for consumers, one of the things to remember is that nobody in health care can make money by making it easy for you. nobody. think about the computer. i don't understand anything about how any of my computers work. i've got a lot of them. i've got three phones, i've got laptops, i've got tablets, right? is not that into how they work but it's also not because there's one that is the clear superior computer that we all must have. it's, in fact, because of the opposite. this most impossibly complex thing on earth, this thing that was used only by nasa and the irs and ibm. is used by all of us because nobody said to complicated for consumers. somebody said i know how to make a living, i'm going to figure out how to make it smaller and smaller. rand released a study this month that said that the $81 billion in savings we were going to get by making an investment in health i.t. produced no savings. too bad bec
of us. but, of course, that's not true. when you that health care is impossibly complex for consumers, one of the things to remember is that nobody in health care can make money by making it easy for you. nobody. think about the computer. i don't understand anything about how any of my computers work. i've got a lot of them. i've got three phones, i've got laptops, i've got tablets, right? is not that into how they work but it's also not because there's one that is the clear superior computer...
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tell us about it. >> it is my story of being a single mom for 23 years. i became a single mom is pregnant with my third son. there is rough days and good days and what i did this throughout that time i never heard a positive message from the right or left of encouraging words or instruction may be a help us get along because the odds are against kids who have only one mom or one parent in the home. so i broke the book as they can do both. is out eight, positive message, not only for single moms, the parents. we all relate to some extent. and say those covers my heart and soul. >> people who know your career know you as a republican. is this book free of? >> this book is apolitical. i don't care how you came a single mom. this book is about helping you be successful in making certain as kids have a chance to be as successful as any other child independent of what their circumstances are. so that is why ski is so much is out there and so much makes you feel as a single mom to you somehow failed or that odds are against you or that it's too much work and it'
tell us about it. >> it is my story of being a single mom for 23 years. i became a single mom is pregnant with my third son. there is rough days and good days and what i did this throughout that time i never heard a positive message from the right or left of encouraging words or instruction may be a help us get along because the odds are against kids who have only one mom or one parent in the home. so i broke the book as they can do both. is out eight, positive message, not only for...
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they used to hold up the dome of the u.s. capitol. however, as it was getting nearer to completion, they found out the sandstone that they used for the columns with and support the full weight. the dome of the capitol right now are the replicas of the columns. these were taken off of the capitol and moved several different locations around washington, d.c., and they finally ended up at the arboretum. these were quarried in virginia had a port where african-americans p8 quarried the stone, put it into blocks, put it on barges heading up the potomac brought to the washington harbor and then put on horse and carriage and brought up to the u.s. capitol. if you go out today, you can actually go out and put your hand on something that african-american slaves worked on for the u.s. capitol. but you don't have to go all the way out to the arboretum to put your hand on something the slaves work on. the national statuary hall outside of the u.s. capitol,úú this used to be the original chamber for the house of representatives. the columns in
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like us on facebook at facebook.com/booktv or follow us on twitter at booktv. you can also visit our website at booktv.org and click on news about books. booktv interviewed jeffrey macris about his book, "the politics and security of the gulf." this is part of booktv's college college series. it is about 20 minutes long. >> host: jeffrey macris, what is your title mean? >> welcome we represent military professors as a hybrid, adjoining of the professional officer corps, and the professional educators at the naval academy. i spent the first half of my naval career flying aircraft to the u.s. navy. about 10 years ago, i transitioned over to academia. where i had an out standing opportunity to go to school where i specialize in middle eastern history. >> host: now an author, "the politics and security of the gulf" is the name of your book. that's a big topic, isn't it? >> guest: yes, it is. the united states has been involved in three hot wars. it is a big topic that needs to be discussed and investigated. which is part of the reason why we took on this topic. >>
like us on facebook at facebook.com/booktv or follow us on twitter at booktv. you can also visit our website at booktv.org and click on news about books. booktv interviewed jeffrey macris about his book, "the politics and security of the gulf." this is part of booktv's college college series. it is about 20 minutes long. >> host: jeffrey macris, what is your title mean? >> welcome we represent military professors as a hybrid, adjoining of the professional officer corps,...
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used to go there regularly. and i think he along with paul volcker and the public sector side or major mentors of mine. and so i think it is fair to say , and you have seen this from the altar was the greatest banker of his age. and that is what city is going back to, i think, at this point in time. we have a lot of prez's city bankers, former citi bankers in this audience who will agree with me. so but as far as, you know, working with walter, and he is the one who got me involved in all of this. john reed later on. we are both, i think, significant world financial leaders. as far as having talked with a lot of people, i think meeting mandela, having dealt with a number of cases, spent an hour in 1980 with fidel castro. he wanted my advice on how to restructure the cuban debt. i said to mike and speak to you about that because we nationalized you in cuba. one of the first tax we did was nationalized the human bank. and then we're kind of even year. and this was in nicaragua. in fact, running the sandinista gove
used to go there regularly. and i think he along with paul volcker and the public sector side or major mentors of mine. and so i think it is fair to say , and you have seen this from the altar was the greatest banker of his age. and that is what city is going back to, i think, at this point in time. we have a lot of prez's city bankers, former citi bankers in this audience who will agree with me. so but as far as, you know, working with walter, and he is the one who got me involved in all of...
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i've used a hatchet to blaze a trail so he would know how to get back. this is who lincoln has to go up against. [laughter] he is actually very successful. he has the biggest majority in the district, bigger than baker's majority and hardin's majority, now he has a gear and half until he is sworn in. so he continues to go to court, he continues to try these cases and handle cases. the last case that he handles before he heads to washington is a slave case. this is going to be very important when we see where the wilderness act. so there was a slave in the illinois courts, she was trying to bring him back to kentucky. his entire life he is exposed to slavery. he was born in kentucky, which was basically america's first highly if this is something that is very familiar to him. he sees the biggest slave market in north america and he sees the brutality of of slavery and he wishes it would end, but he also recognizes that there are laws in place. and so he represented mr. madsen. you would never see something like this from lincoln after he leaves congress.
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so i just used these three examples. one in the middle east, one in latin america, one in asia where they be able to do this. and this is an example of leadership to do what's necessary. i mean, n. korea, we've got this done in a couple of months, and four months later, they were raising -- $5 billion in international markets. because they just took a decision and went at it. >> a lot of the things you're talking about, the leadership, political leadership, timing, and the banking union, gave the banks back into lending and the fiscal pact in those components on that part. just as an aside, in talking about another country, russia. you know, russia desperately wants to reproduce itself to the rest of the world. and not in some of the main it has been. they get this opportunity with the g20 coming up in september. crystal ball, do you see anything from a coordination standpoint from the g20, and -- having out of this? this? and easy russia's image change? >> i think this is a big opportunity for the prime minister to show
so i just used these three examples. one in the middle east, one in latin america, one in asia where they be able to do this. and this is an example of leadership to do what's necessary. i mean, n. korea, we've got this done in a couple of months, and four months later, they were raising -- $5 billion in international markets. because they just took a decision and went at it. >> a lot of the things you're talking about, the leadership, political leadership, timing, and the banking union,...
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this document, which you can get if you like, doesn't use the word freedom, it doesn't use the word democracy, it doesn't mention the particular leaders and it doesn't talk about the regime types or radical islamic and certainly doesn't mengin wmd. it says instead, quote, access to the persian gulf oil is vital to national security interests, period. memories of hostages in iran destroy the barracks in beirut and that is reason enough to worry and this context matters understanding of the widespread reluctance to do more in response to the invasion. for saddam hussein didn't current-gen as i mentioned before that long-range destruction of oil. moreover, the middle east wasn't a particularly appealing place for those in american politics with a sense of short to medium and long-term history. tikrit sample the secretary of state, james baker, who at this point had advised presidents for decades or years excuse me, but had been one of his closest friends for decades. he was secretary of state, and upon hearing this news, contemplating it, getting back to washington, he wasn't in washington at th
this document, which you can get if you like, doesn't use the word freedom, it doesn't use the word democracy, it doesn't mention the particular leaders and it doesn't talk about the regime types or radical islamic and certainly doesn't mengin wmd. it says instead, quote, access to the persian gulf oil is vital to national security interests, period. memories of hostages in iran destroy the barracks in beirut and that is reason enough to worry and this context matters understanding of the...